Digital Health 2018 introduces the Innovation Prize 2018 to celebrate the most successful businesses in digital health. Submissions will be judged and awarded by a high profile panel of judges. Entries open to SMEs, business, charity or health delivery organisations: so long as they present an innovation in digital health, we welcome entries from a diverse array of organisations. Deadline for entries: Monday 26th March 2018 – submit your entry here

Shortlisted Companies:

The following companies have been shortlisted:

1.Best scale-up success
Will be announced shortly

2.Best partnership
Will be announced shortly

3.Best data-driven innovation
Will be announced shortly

Session 2 : Social Media & User Engagement

13:40 – 15:00

Day 1 (24th April), Grand Salon Prestige

Summary:

Mining health data from social media and use of mobile devices in intervention

A fast-paced interactive unconference designed to highlight and confront key challenges faced by you, innovators, in digital health domain. The session is a unique opportunity to meet digital health leaders who will share their stories, analysis, tips and lessons learned. Innovators will then be given an opportunity to work with these leaders in a outcome-oriented breakout sessions.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 recognizes the strong connection between health and disasters and promotes the concept of health resilience throughout. Several of the seven global targets stated in the Sendai Framework are directly related to health in terms of reducing disaster mortality, the number of affected people, disaster damage to critical infrastructure, and disruption of basic services such as health facilities. The Sendai Framework also maintains close coordination with other United Nations landmark agreements relevant to health such as the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the measurement of health-related indicators is challenging. Issues arise, for example, in linking deaths to disasters because of the complex interplay between exposure, risk, vulnerability, and hazards. The lack of a universal classification of disasters also means that recording of health data in disasters is not standardized. Developing the guidelines to enable data on the indicators to be collected and reported to support the Sendai targets requires engagement with a diverse range of stakeholders. This panel session will seek to provide strong collaboration and partnership that will be vital to achieving success.

Using technology to measure health phenomena and support health workers

Session Chair:

TBC

15:45 – 16:00

ΖΙΚΛ: A new system to empower health workers and local communities to improve surveillance protocols by e-learning and to forecast Zika virus in real time in Brazil. Juan D. Beltrán, Andy Boscor, Patty Kostkova (UCL Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction), Wellington Pinheiro Dos Santos (Federal University of Pernambuco), Tiago Massoni (Federal University of Campina Grande)